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Quiz: How Self-Conscious Are You?

 

How self-conscious are you? Take this quiz to find out.

 

After each question, mark a. Disagree. b. Somewhat agree. c. Strongly agree.

 

1. When talking with strangers, I tend to avoid looking at them in the eyes.

2. After I have a conversation ...read more

Categories: Improving Yourself Self Esteem

How Do I Create a Good Relationship When I’ve Never Had One Before?

 

Dear Neil: My life experience proves that all men are alike: they all disappoint me in the end. So why try to have a good relationship with one? There’s no sense in getting close to a man, because he’s going to leave me eventually. In my last relationship, I wanted to know everything ...read more

Categories: Improving Yourself Self Esteem

Reader Says, “Women Want Too Much From Men”

Dear Neil: I’m confused. I get mixed signals from single women I’ve dated about what they want a man to be, and about what they expect from a man in an intimate relationship. Most women clearly want a man to be financially stable and affluent—in essence to pay for everything, and to offer the ...read more

Categories: Self Esteem When am I Good Enough?

Quiz: How Much Do You Trust Yourself?

This quiz will help you identify how much you trust yourself vs. how much you doubt yourself.  Give yourself a score of 0-5 for each question, where 0 means it doesn’t apply at all, and 5 means that it is often troublesome to you.

  1. Do you berate yourself for having strong feelings? ...read more

Categories: Self Esteem

What’s Right With You? Part 2

Note:  This is the second of a two-part series.

The following questions are designed to help you explore how you can increase your sense of personal power, self-worth and self-esteem—by exploring where in life you’ve been intelligent, kind, healthy, strong, courageous or wise.  ...read more

Categories: Self Esteem

What’s Right With You? Part 1

A Self Evaluation

NOTE:  THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART SERIES.

If you are like most of us, you focus most of your personal attention on your problems and your challenges—on the things that aren’t going so well in your life.  Things such as relationship ...read more

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Agreements With Self Lead to Higher Self-Esteem

Looking for better self-esteem?  Higher self-worth?  Increased self-confidence?

The following ideas about how to achieve a better relationship with yourself—which are really good rules for living—are taken from Don Miguel Ruiz’s excellent book The Four Agreements (Amber-Allen ...read more

Categories: Integrity Self Esteem

Woman’s Insecurities Are Threatening Her Relationship

Dear Neil:  I am 32 years-old, and I’m a mess.  I grew up in a mess of a home—parents divorced when I was five.  I had an abusive step-father.  My father and I are now estranged.  I’ve spent years trying to connect the dots between my childhood and the person I am, so ...read more

Categories: Feeling Worthy of Love Self Esteem

Compassion For Self Requires Understanding of Inner Critic

Dear Neil:  I am interested in your thoughts on how to feel compassion for myself.  I can easily feel compassion for others, but when it comes to me I am extremely hard on myself.  I would like to know how to be kind and compassionate to myself and put my critic/attacker aside.

Inner ...read more

Categories: Inner Critic Self Esteem

Why Aren’t Men Checking Me Out?

Dear Neil:  Is there something that makes men attracted to women?  Why is it that my best friend is hit on all the time (even as she gains a little weight), but I don’t get hit on at all.  I am shy, and I just don’t have it in me to talk to a random guy without some encouragement, ...read more

Categories: Dating / Singles Issues Self Esteem

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